concoct

C2 Topic:House & Home
US /kənˈkɒkt/
verb Freq #41868

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

    Concoct a strange mixture.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to prepare or cook by... cook up
Word family
Forms concoctedconcoctingconcocts
Derived forms concocterconcoctiveconcoctordeconcoctinconcoctedreconcoctunconcocted
Related forms concoctiondecoctcook

Etymology

From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).

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